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tics to the moderate Liberal Party in India and was of
r persuasion, though he kept his friendships strong with
rybody, and was very sore a couple of years earlier
n he had been refused permission by Government to
MahatmaJi in Jail. After her lecture Mrs. Besant at once
for the station. She had made a very long journey
to deliver this speech, and the President was glad to
her an opportunity to do so. Her eloquence, however^
going from her. The old fire was burning tow. She
already beginning to forget words of which she used to
a profound master; but her earnestness, her sincerity,
courage, her devotion remained the same to the last.

^e was true to the country of her adoption, and
ed her in her own way and in accordance with her

lights till the end. I was myself discontented with
attitude in the latter years. On one occasion, during
e years, she had come with Mr. Krishnamurti to have
^ith us. I was very excited, and tried to cut into her
ments with heated words. She spoke quietly and then
lenly became silent. However strongly she might
ik on the platform, in personal conversation she would
ir carry on any violent controversy. There she strictly
wed the injunction of the ancients433; but her per-
l relations with her old friends remained the same.

)on after my father's imprisonment for his alleged activi"
in connection with the boycott of the visit of the Prince
Vales to Benares (1921)—the Prince of Wales who later
me King Edward Vill and had to abdicate his throne
use of his marriage (1937)—she informed me of her
ng to Benares for the Theosophical Convention and